Wednesday, March 14, 2012

The New House

Well, its been almost a year since the last blog, but we know everyone is anxious to see pics from the new house and all the renovations.

When looking for houses we definitely had something in mind and soon found out it would require some work on our end to make it happen. So the house we bought was actually the 2nd house we ever looked at here in Denver. We thought it required too much work despite how great of shape the overall house was in. After months of searching we came back to the Rosemary house and decided to make an offer!

House in October 2011

Family Room

Laundry Room in Kitchen

View from Family Room

Kitchen

Basement and Pool Table

Master Bath and Closets

Master Shower

Master Bedroom

Staircase Upstair...whoa...

Dining Room

Living Room

We closed on the house in November and started demolition on the first floor the very next day! After a few weeks of mocking up floor plans and working with our contractors, Terence finally designed something that we loved and worked in our budget. We started with the first floor of the house wanting to create a more open floor plan and to expand the kitchen. We also updated the half bath, moved the laundry room to the basement, tore down the ugly green wallpaper and cork board/mirror wall, and replaced all the trim.

Demo Start

New Kitchen (tore down wall between old kitchen and dining room

Master Bath Demo

New Flooring and Walls

Luckily behind those three dusty layers of window treatments throughout
the house there were bright, new windows. We did have to replace the
flooring and decided to go with a natural red oak throughout the first
floor.

Next we tackled the master bathroom and closet. We laid out a new design with a separate walk-in closet and master bathroom.

New Master Shower with bench

Master Bedroom (new closet on right, bath on left)

Upstairs Bedroom Hallway

New Kitchen Cabinets

Besides the major work we did, Terence and I are now busy tearing down the rest of the wallpaper and painting the upstairs.